Photo Mechanic beta updates continue By
Mike Tomkins(Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 15:23 EST)Camera Bits Inc. is continuing work on a beta version of an upcoming update for the company's workflow tool, Photo Mechanic, that fixes some issues found in the previous version.

Courtesy of Camera Bits, the full list of changes in the new version is as follows:

Both platforms:

Changed how QuickTime files are opened to prevent QuickTime from showing UI dialogs/windows on our background threads which would cause Photo Mechanic to crash.

FTP and SFTP uploader templates now handle destination folder paths with {variables} in such a way that attached files (e.g. XMP and WAV sidecar files) will end up in the same destination folder as the photo they belong to. Also, using variables like {folderpath} now return the path to the original image where it resides.

Added preference to control whether Structured Keywords will be written only to the lr:hierarchicalSubject field or if they will be written to both the hierarchicalSubject field and dc:subject field when updating XMP. All keywords, flat or structured will be always written to the IPTC keywords field since there is no other place to put them in IPTC.

Improved handling of low memory conditions.

Mac only:

Ingest now uses OS-supplied copy facility to copy images from the card. This was done in an attempt to speed up Ingests on Mac OS X 10.6.x.

Copy/Move of files via drag and drop now handles case where multiple files with the same name are copied/moved to the drop destination folder. Files that arrive and have a file with the same name at the destination are now renamed to allow them to exist at the destination folder.